Re^3: how to write a perl one liner?

I looked at it, but abandoned it when I remembered xargs. It has the same problem as my earlier solutions unless you unset env var IFS. (I think prefixing the whole thing with "IFS=" will do the trick.)
Additionally, I think xargs will report non-zero exit codes, whereas the bash loop solutions don't without more code.
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Re^4: how to write a perl one liner? by ambrus (Abbot) on Mar 08, 2011 at 19:05 UTC
It has the same problem as my earlier solutions unless you unset env var IFS. I can't see how IFS would figure in this. The read builtin is passed only one name so it will read all of the line (except the newline) into a single variable, and as we double-quote that variable later, it's always passed as a single argument to the command. Additionally, I think xargs will report non-zero exit codes, whereas the bash loop solutions don't without more code. That's true, yes.	[reply]
Re^5: how to write a perl one liner? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 08, 2011 at 20:17 UTC
The read builtin is passed only one name so it will read all of the line (except the newline) into a single variable You're right. I misread or misinterpreted "with leftover words and their intervening separators assigned to the last name.", and proceeded to run what must have been a bad test.	[reply]